Munich Oktoberfest pictures

Pictures from the Lowenbrau tent:

^^^That was early on Thursday, like 1130 so the tent wasn't packed yet. On Saturday you couldn't even get inside the tents it was so busy.

Lowenbrau tent on Friday. Many more people:

Paulaner tent:

Hofbrau tent. They had dried hops hanging from the columns so I grabbed some and threw them in my beer.

Augustiner tent:

Couldn't even get inside the tent!




View of Oktoberfest from a ferris wheel:

Horses drawing the breweries' beer barrels:



More Oktoberfest craziness:





Drinking at Andechs on the Marienplatz. They had hops hanging up too so I grabbed a couple cones.



Drinking at the Hofbrauhaus on Saturday, away from the fairgrounds but it was still packed as hell. All the Spanish in the beer haus were chanting like they were at a soccer game.

Well, that's about it from Oktoberfest. I've got tons of crowd pics but who wants to see 10 pages of those?



Right now I'm in Oberwesel on the Rhine and staying in a castle hotel. Great views.





Great beer, too:

Stayin on the rhine huh? You are one lucky bastid.

Great stuff!

Nice but... Wheres the pics of the busty serving wenches???

Fischer Vroni Tent
Tues afternoon

Woohoo!

Thats the only wench?

wildwest450 said:

Nice but... Wheres the pics of the busty serving wenches???

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The ones I saw were mostly older, with arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger and faces like Jurgen Prochnow.

Crowd pics of hot female German and Spanish Fest Participants?

Looks like a lotta fun! That's a lot of liters just in your pics.

That Emmer looks interesting, here's the first thing google spit out:

This beer is called 'Historisches' as it is made with a variety of grains, all of which were once used in the middle ages. Emmer, barley, einkorn, spelt and wheat (at least that is what I could translate from the label).
Emmerbier pours a cloudy, amber/chestnut color. Has a mild roasty, caramel/toffee smell. Medium body and creamy smooth. I taste mellow chocolate and caramel flavors. Full aftertaste with little to no bitterness.

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I work for a German Company (Rohde & Schwarz) and they have us travel to our Headquarters in Munich once a year for sales meetings. They always have us fly in just after Oktoberfest. I understand why now.

So do people just sit in these tents and drink lager all day or is there stuff going on?

Tonedef131 said:

So do people just sit in these tents and drink lager all day or is there stuff going on?

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Well, there's a band and they play Oompah music and then the beer wenches serve pretzels but yeah that's about it. I'll put up some Oompah band videos later if bandwidth permits.

Here's one of me drinking in Bacharach. I forget what beer this is but I liked it.

I know the name is written on it but I suck at German. And at reading.

But you're good at drinking!

That looks like a great time..... and you suck:cross:

Sawdustguy said:

I work for a German Company (Rohde & Schwarz) and they have us travel to our Headquarters in Munich once a year for sales meetings. They always have us fly in just after Oktoberfest. I understand why now.

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...sounds like a perfect excuse to head there a week early for a combined pleasure & business trip.

Originally Posted by Tonedef131
So do people just sit in these tents and drink lager all day or is there stuff going on?

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No, we drink this stuff too.


We just had our German Air Force Oktoberfest two weeks ago.
The goal is to get wasted.




All bullets have been replaced with Schnapps bottles.


We do jump around too




Cheers,
ClaudiusB

wow thats looks so fun !!

meaty did you find Mr.Spittal Spackle out side the big tent?

MeatyPortion said:

Well, there's a band and they play Oompah music and then the beer wenches serve pretzels but yeah that's about it. I'll put up some Oompah band videos later if bandwidth permits.

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Please do! I manage an Oompah band and am always on the look out for new tunes to play. I probably watched (mostly listened) a good 5 hrs or so of live streaming from the Hofbrau house this year to hear what songs they played. I need to find some music for "can't take my eyes off of you"

I manage an Oompah band and am always on the look out for new tunes to play.

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Cabbage rolls and coffee...mmm, mmm, good is always a hit.

One guess where I was yesterday.

A bar? In Germany?:rockin:

Belgium clearly... looks nice too

Ding ding ding. Rochefort, Belgium. Couldn't get into the Abbey to watch the monks brew but we had some beers in town and then some more at the train station in Jemelle. For a train station it had an awesome beer menu and the bartender was cool as hell. He kept bringing local wursts to the table and gave us a free bottle of Orval and Chimay each. If you're ever going through Belgium stop at Jemelle's train station and visit the stout, cheerful Belgian bartender with the mullet.

Some pix from the station:

the menu



some local brews made about 2 km away from Jemelle

Here's me, drunk on the train on the way back.

Some more beer pix from my hotel room in Trier:

dude so whats is the story with your excursion?
i am going to have to pick your brain when you get back..
i just sold my old house, having two on my budget really sucked almost broke me.
but anyway finaly shucked that mother-Fer after 18 months and my ladie declared
we are going on a vaction to octoberfest next year with the money.
we want to start in london and drive to Munic or ride if need be.

and no smart ass remarks from the peanut garlery there is a tunnle you can drive google map it

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...5267,4.152832&spn=10.679986,15.952148&t=h&z=6

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

How was the selection at the Oktoberfest? Was it mainly mass produced stuff?

Endovelico said:

How was the selection at the Oktoberfest? Was it mainly mass produced stuff?

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The big six was all I saw. My favorite was Augustiner, by far. The Hofbrau was pretty meh. Lowenbrau was somewhat meh as well but their tent was a lot of fun.